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Robert Glen, 20th Great-Grandfather
April 14, 2013
— ancestry, Robert Glen, Scotland
Glen Coat of Arms
My 20th great grandfather married the illegitimate daughter of Robert the Bruce, Margaret. His legitimate daughter Marjorie is also my ancestor. This is the kind of thing that gets the branches of your tree tangled. I wonder if he really accompanied the heart of Robert the Bruce to the holy land. What a totally bizarre mission. There is some confusion, but we know a lot, considering that he was born in 1303.
Robert, son of John de le Glen, married Margaret, illegitimate daughter of Robert Bruce Robert de Glen and ” Margaret Bruce the King’s sister,” his spouse, had a grant from David II., undated, of Nether Pitedye, Kinghorn, Fife (adjoining Balmuto) Robertson notes three other charters from David to this Robert de Glen, of the lands of Glasgow Forest, thanedom of Kintore, Aberdeen. Wood gives Margaret as legitimate, and says that she married, secondly, William, Earl of Sutherland. The latter did marry as his second wife, Margaret Bruce; but it is impossible that she was the widow of Glen, and an authority points out that the arms quartered by Glen, and attributed to the co-heiress of Abernethy, were not the Abernethy arms, but those of Scotland with the Scottish mark of illegitimacy, which agrees with a tradition preserved in several branches of the family, and is conclusive. Another tradition, traceable for four centuries, insists that Robert de Glen was one of those who accompanied the heart of Bruce to the Holy Land, and the Linlithgow line used two crests, one a martlet; the other an arm, the hand grasping a heart, in commemoration of that event. Moreover, the Glens of Bar possessed the sword of Bruce, which a descendant carried to Ireland, in 1606, where it was seen a few years since, the inscription on the blade leaving no doubt as to its original ownership.
Robert Glen (1303 – 1345)
is my 20th great grandfather
John Glen (1349 – 1419)
son of Robert Glen
Isabel Glen (1380 – 1421)
daughter of John Glen
Isabel Ogilvie (1406 – 1484)
daughter of Isabel Glen
Elizabeth Kennedy (1434 – 1475)
daughter of Isabel Ogilvie
Isabella Vaus (1451 – 1510)
daughter of Elizabeth Kennedy
Marion Accarson (1478 – 1538)
daughter of Isabella Vaus
Catherine Gordon (1497 – 1537)
daughter of Marion Accarson
Lady Elizabeth Ashton (1524 – 1588)
daughter of CATHERINE GORDON
Capt Roger Dudley (1535 – 1585)
son of Lady Elizabeth Ashton
Gov Thomas Dudley (1576 – 1653)
son of Capt Roger Dudley
Anne Dudley (1612 – 1672)
daughter of Gov Thomas Dudley
John Bradstreet (1652 – 1718)
son of Anne Dudley
Mercy Bradstreet (1689 – 1725)
daughter of John Bradstreet
Caleb Hazen (1720 – 1777)
son of Mercy Bradstreet
Mercy Hazen (1747 – 1819)
daughter of Caleb Hazen
Martha Mead (1784 – 1860)
daughter of Mercy Hazen
Abner Morse (1808 – 1838)
son of Martha Mead
Daniel Rowland Morse (1838 – 1910)
son of Abner Morse
Jason A Morse (1862 – 1932)
son of Daniel Rowland Morse
Ernest Abner Morse (1890 – 1965)
son of Jason A Morse
Richard Arden Morse (1920 – 2004)
son of Ernest Abner Morse
Pamela Morse
I am the daughter of Richard Arden Morse
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I’m researching my family tree and discovered your blog post. Robert Glen is also my 20th great grandfather. Our lines diverge a couple generations after that. My grandfather was still a Glen.
Amazing .. i have never seen a full tree of this family of which Robert is also my 20th Grand father .. My mother’s maiden name is Glen .. her father was Harold Stanley Glen and his father was Ernest Edward Glen .. His father was also and Ernest Edward Glen.. His father was John Glen and his father as far as i can tell was Hugh Glen from I think Glasgow … This is where i lose the line but in my family the story has been that there was a famous knight in our tree .. this can only be Robert Glen .. If I had the money for the research i am sure i would find the rest of the connections .. one can only hope that one day I will be able to do so.
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